Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
I'm interested in helping women become courageous in being exactly who they are. Because the only way to change anything is to do it from your genuine self.
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
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I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.
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I knew Childress was going to help me because my crew told me on the radio. I really appreciate what Richard did, but that is typical of people in this sport.
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I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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Most of the sicknesses we suffer from are from the things we eat.
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I met Donald Barthelme when I was 30, and it's fair to say that before that moment, I was pre-modern, and after I met him, I was nudged rather forcefully towards this other end of the spectrum.
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When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.
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I enjoy music that is commercial. I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations, you have to always consider that. Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music, and you always have to keep that in mind. It's not so much financial as making sure it gets the shot and is heard on the radio.
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We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.
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When you have a lot of communication online before you go out with someone, it builds up a false sense of who the person is. There's a tendency to fill in the blanks with positive information.
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Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
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I'm interested in helping women become courageous in being exactly who they are. Because the only way to change anything is to do it from your genuine self.
